Just over a week before he takes office, Trump said he had ceded “complete” managing control of his global property empire to his two adult sons but stopped short of making a full divestment, earning a swift rebuke from an ethics watchdog and Democratic Party opponents. The president-elect accused CNN of being “fake news” and slammed BuzzFeed as “a failing pile of garbage” after it published a dossier with the allegedly incriminating material, drawn up by a former British intelligence agent hired to do “opposition research” on Trump. It didn’t happen,” he said, referring to allegations of lurid behavior in a Moscow hotel room. “It was a group of opponents that got together, sick people, and they put that crap together,” added the 70-year-old Republican billionaire. You are fake news,” he told a CNN reporter, igniting a fresh raft of questions about his respect for constitutional guarantees about the free press.

Source: Manila Times January 12, 2017 17:09 UTC